Poems on the abolition of the slave-trade

nature of the slave trade, from which Mr. Wilberforce drew his strongest arguments for the abolition. In the performance of his task, Mr. CLARKSON was often placed in situations of difficulty and danger, and in the course of seven years travelled thirty-five thousand miles; nor were these his only labours, he corresponded with four hundred persons, and annually published some work illustrative of the subject. Overwhelmed with fatigue he was at length obliged to relinquish his post, and to devote some years to the reestablishment of his impaired constitution. In 1805, he was sufficiently recovered to resume his appropriate duties, and at length saw the termination of his labours, in the attainment of that object to which he had religiously dedicated his health and strength, his time and talents, all the powers of his mind, and the best portion of his life.

Mr. CLARKSON has since published the History of the Abolition, a simple but substantial record of his own unexampled exertions, which renders praise as trivial as superfluous.